The Kingswood Ration
Calculator is explained in the video below. (Watch in full screen HD
if your internet speed allows.)

Features

Calculate feed amount on the basis of milk
yield from:

Milk parlour milk meters

Official monthly milk recordings

Easy recording of milk yields in the parlour using a Palm PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) enables farmers who do not have electronic identification systems to be
able to feed the cows to yield easily. This results in much better utilisation of feed - high yielding cows get fed more and maintain
production for longer, while lower yielding cows get fed less, saving on feed costs and preventing the cows from becoming too fat.

Directly update feed controller with calculated feeds

Feed to yield is based on a number of parameters:

Days in milk

Maintenance plus value of other feeds

1st lactation animals can be different rates of feed from older cows

Feed cows not in calf different rate from cows which have been pregnancy diagnosed

"With
the price of feed, it’s important to keep our feed regime up to date on
a daily basis. This would not be possible without the Kingswood Ration
Calculator – It’s paid for itself a multitude of times over!"

James Lowe (Dairy Farmer
and Pedigree Breeder, Co. Antrim.)

James uses the full Kingswood
Herd with the Ration Calculator to manage a Dairy and Pedigree Herd
totalling approximately 300 head.

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Big Potential Savings
with the Kingswood
Ration Calculator

"I was astonished that in the first month of using the
ration calculator we saved ten tonnes of feed.
Having used it for only a year, the savings in feed
costs have already paid for the feeders and the
program."Jim Morrow (Dairy
Farmer, Co Down)